Source code for lux.action.generalize

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import lux
from lux.vis.Vis import Vis
from lux.processor.Compiler import Compiler
from lux.utils import utils
from lux.interestingness.interestingness import interestingness


[docs]def generalize(ldf): """ Generates all possible visualizations when one attribute or filter from the current vis is removed. Parameters ---------- ldf : lux.core.frame LuxDataFrame with underspecified intent. Returns ------- recommendations : Dict[str,obj] object with a collection of visualizations that result from the Generalize action. """ # takes in a dataObject and generates a list of new dataObjects, each with a single measure from the original object removed # --> return list of dataObjects with corresponding interestingness scores output = [] excluded_columns = [] attributes = list(filter(lambda x: x.value == "" and x.attribute != "Record", ldf._intent)) filters = utils.get_filter_specs(ldf._intent) fltr_str = [fltr.attribute + fltr.filter_op + str(fltr.value) for fltr in filters] attr_str = [str(clause.attribute) for clause in attributes] intended_attrs = f'<p class="highlight-intent">{", ".join(attr_str + fltr_str)}</p>' recommendation = { "action": "Generalize", "description": f"Remove an attribute or filter from {intended_attrs}.", "long_description": f"Remove one aspect of the Current Vis. We can either remove an attribute or filter from {intended_attrs}.", } # to observe a more general trend # if we do no have enough column attributes or too many, return no vis. if len(attributes) < 1 or len(attributes) > 4: recommendation["collection"] = [] return recommendation # for each column specification, create a copy of the ldf's vis and remove the column specification # then append the vis to the output if len(attributes) > 1: for clause in attributes: columns = clause.attribute if type(columns) == list: for column in columns: if column not in excluded_columns: temp_vis = Vis(ldf.copy_intent(), score=1) temp_vis.remove_column_from_spec(column, remove_first=True) excluded_columns.append(column) output.append(temp_vis) else: if columns not in excluded_columns: temp_vis = Vis(ldf.copy_intent(), score=1) temp_vis.remove_column_from_spec(columns, remove_first=True) excluded_columns.append(columns) output.append(temp_vis) # for each filter specification, create a copy of the ldf's current vis and remove the filter specification, # then append the vis to the output for clause in filters: # new_spec = ldf._intent.copy() # new_spec.remove_column_from_spec(new_spec.attribute) temp_vis = Vis( ldf.current_vis[0]._inferred_intent.copy(), source=ldf, title="Overall", score=0, ) temp_vis.remove_filter_from_spec(clause.value) output.append(temp_vis) vlist = lux.vis.VisList.VisList(output, source=ldf) # Ignore interestingness sorting since Generalize yields very few vis (preserve order of remove attribute, then remove filters) # for vis in vlist: # vis.score = interestingness(vis,ldf) vlist.remove_duplicates() vlist.sort(remove_invalid=True) vlist._collection = list(filter(lambda x: x.score != -1, vlist._collection)) recommendation["collection"] = vlist return recommendation